Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 2 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 4 | We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that . |
| 5 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 6 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |
| 7 | Jean Parmiter reported that tickets are now available for the Reunion — Please remember they are for Members Only and Teachers are reminded that membership cards may be checked at this and future events . |
| 8 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 9 | Wars are almost as disastrous for wildlife as they are for humans . |
| 10 | They are for 15″ deep tanks , and for 2 , 3 or 4′ tanks . |
| 11 | Informative labels and simple counter identification through symbols about the location of goods are of considerable help to older people , as they are for shoppers of all ages . |
| 12 | They 're for things like spot cream . |
| 13 | Yes , but they 're going and then they 've got them in the ponds , they 've got them all in their ponds , so they 're obviously okay , they 're for ponds so it , I think if we probably get ten , fifteen on the , cos I 'm gon na be so used to seeing them , cos I 'm gon na be ordering those , I 'll order all the carps and you 've got as well |
| 14 | They 're for folks down South , who do n't know a lathe from a loom . ’ |
| 15 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers . |
| 17 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 18 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 19 | They were for teenagers , looking ahead to a life where anything wonderful could happen . |
| 20 | They were for servants . |
| 21 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 22 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 23 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 24 | The children And that were n't for a day , for a night , it were for weeks and weeks on end . |
| 25 | Er , I mean it 's ancient , it 's for things where you ca n't give a path as an argument . |
| 26 | It 's for Windows 3. x and is the first 32-bit X server software for it , generating a 22% to 76% performance increase over the 16-bit XoftWare , says AGE . |
| 27 | It 's for dictionaries . |
| 28 | It 's a stable , but it 's for horses . |
| 29 | ‘ I organised this little surprise for Luke — it 's for friends only , so I suggest you do as I say and turn around now . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |